Tutankhamun
The Ancients
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The Origins of Tutankhamun's Texts
We don't have anything like a personal history of Tutankhamun. We do know from his surviving texts that he saw himself as a restorer king, as a traditional king of Egypt. In addition to texts, we have archaeology in the broadest sense and it's everything from surviving monuments to little tiny domestic goods which you might find in remains of a city. And then of course for TutankhamUN, we have his tomb. And that has an awful lot of information in there in the form of grave goods. Not really much written material. The writings in the tomb is very formulaic again, you know, prayers and things like that. So it doesn't really enhance
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